Word Information

Cold

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Definitions for Cold

noun
a mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs)
Synonyms
common cold
Examples
  1. will they never find a cure for the common cold?
noun
the absence of heat
Synonyms
coldness low temperature frigidity frigidness
Examples
  1. the coldness made our breath visible
  2. come in out of the cold
  3. cold is a vasoconstrictor
noun
the sensation produced by low temperatures
Synonyms
coldness
Examples
  1. he shivered from the cold
  2. the cold helped clear his head
adjective
having a low or inadequate temperature or feeling a sensation of coldness or having been made cold by e.g. ice or refrigeration
Examples
  1. a cold climate
  2. a cold room
  3. dinner has gotten cold
  4. cold fingers
  5. if you are cold, turn up the heat
  6. a cold beer
adjective
extended meanings
Examples
  1. especially of psychological coldness
  2. without human warmth or emotion
  3. a cold unfriendly nod
  4. a cold and unaffectionate person
  5. a cold impersonal manner
  6. cold logic
  7. the concert left me cold
adjective
having lost freshness through passage of time
Examples
  1. a cold trail
  2. dogs attempting to catch a cold scent
adjective
(color) giving no sensation of warmth
Examples
  1. a cold bluish grey
adjective
marked by errorless familiarity
Examples
  1. had her lines cold before rehearsals started
adjective
lacking originality or spontaneity
Synonyms
stale dusty moth-eaten
Examples
  1. no longer new
  2. moth-eaten theories about race
  3. stale news
adjective
so intense as to be almost uncontrollable
Examples
  1. cold fury gripped him
adjective
sexually unresponsive
Synonyms
frigid
Examples
  1. was cold to his advances
  2. a frigid woman
adjective
without compunction or human feeling
Synonyms
cold-blooded inhuman insensate
Examples
  1. in cold blood
  2. cold-blooded killing
  3. insensate destruction
adjective
feeling or showing no enthusiasm
Examples
  1. a cold audience
  2. a cold response to the new play
adjective
unconscious from a blow or shock or intoxication
Examples
  1. the boxer was out cold
  2. pass out cold
adjective
of a seeker
Examples
  1. far from the object sought
adjective
lacking the warmth of life
Examples
  1. cold in his grave

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